Long-term follow-up of pediatric cardiac transplant recipients on a steroid-free regime: The role of endomyocardial biopsy

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 469-472

  Leonard, Helen C ^a   O'Sullivan, John J ^a   Dark, John H ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOPSY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; MYOCARDIUM; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034094003     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(00)00080-2     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Wigfield C., Leonard H., Hamilton J.R.L., Hasan A., Dark J.H. Paediatric cardiac transplant surgery has improved (letter) BMJ. 318:1999;944.
2. Spratt P., Sivathasan C., Macdonald P., Keogh A., Chang V. Role of routine endomyocardial biopsy to monitor late rejection after heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 10:1991;912-914.
3. Sethi G.K., Rosado L.J., McCarthy M., Butman S.S., Copeland J.G. Futility of yearly heart biopsies in patients undergoing heart transplantation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 104:1992;1494-1496.
4. White J.A., Guiraudon C., Pflufelder P.W., Kostuk W.J. Routine surveillance myocardial biopsies are unnecessary beyond one year after heart transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant. 14:1995;1052-1056.
5. Zales V.R., Crawford S., Backer C.L., et al. Role of endomyocardial biopsy in rejection surveillance after heart transplantation in neonates and children. J Am Coll Cardiol. 23:1994;766-771.
6. Balzer D.T., Moorhead S., Saffitz J.E., Huddleston C.B., Spray T.L., Canter C.E. Utility of surveillance biopsy in infant heart transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 14:1995;1095-1101.
7. Braunlin E.A., Shumwat S.J., Bolman R.M., et al. Usefulness of surveillance endomyocardial biopsy after pediatric cardiac transplantation. Clin Transplant. 12:1998;184-189.
8. Billingham M.E., Cary N.R.B., Hammond M.E., et al. A working formulation for the standardization of nomenclature in the diagnosis of heart and lung rejection heart rejection study group. The International Society for Heart Transplantation . J Heart Transplant. 9:1990;587-593.
9. Sharples L.D., Cary N.R., Large S.R., Wallwork J. Error rates with which endomyocardial biopsy specimens are graded for rejection after cardiac transplantation. Am J Cardiol. 70:1992;527-530.
10. Nielsen H., Sorensen F.B., Nielsen B., Bagger J.P., Thayssen P., Baandrup U. The Stanford Classification and the International Grading System. J Heart Lung Transplant. 12:1993;239-243.
11. Winters G.L., McManus B.M. Consistencies and controversies in the application of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation working formulation for heart transplant biopsy specimens. Rapamycin Cardiac Rejection Treatment Trial Pathologists. J Heart Lung Transplant. 15:1996;728-735.
12. Lloveras J.-J., Escourrou G., Delisle M.B., et al. Evolution of untreated mild rejection in heart transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 11:1992;751-756.